FORETOLD MOTIFS AND ALLUSIONS LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America STORY LINE Stranger Bayardo San Román comes to town looking for a bride settles on Angela Vicario Discovers on wedding night that she is not a virgin thus provoking crisis of honor ID: 477671
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A DEATH FORETOLD:MOTIFS AND ALLUSIONS
LATI 50
Introduction to Latin AmericaSlide2
STORY LINEStranger (Bayardo
San
Román
) comes to town looking for a bride, settles on Angela Vicario
Discovers on wedding night that she is not a virgin, thus provoking crisis of honor
She names Santiago
Nasar
as “the perpetrator”
Her brothers set out to murder Santiago as a matter of honor
Ceremonial arrival of bishop that same morning
The whole town knows of brothers’ intentions—and no one does anything to stop them. Warning message unseen.
Questions: Why? How? Who bears responsibility? Slide3
CHARACTERS (I)Santiago NasarPlácida
Linero
(his mother)
Ibraham
Nasar
(father)
María
Alejandrina
Cervantes (madam)
Victoria
Guzmán
(cook)
Divina
Flor
(Victoria’s daughter)
Clotilde
Armenta
(storekeeper)
Flora Miguel (Santiago’s fiancée)Slide4
CHARACTERS (II)Angela Vicario (bride)Pedro and Pablo Vicario (brothers)Purísima
del Carmen [de Vicario] (mother)
Poncio
Vicario (father)
Margot (narrator’s
sister/nun)
Luisa
Santiaga
(narrator’s mother)
Prudencia
Cotes (Pablo’s fiancée)
Father Carmen Amador (priest)
Cristo/
Cristóbal
Bedoya
(friend)
Bayardo
San
Román
(suitor/husband)
General
Petronio
San
Román
(father)Slide5
ON LOVE“the pursuit of love is like falconry”“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”
(Note: Santiago
Nasar
practiced falconry)
“Love can be learned too.”Slide6
ON GENDER AND SEX“It’s time for you to be tamed.” (Santiago to Divina Flor
)
“Any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer.” (Angela + sisters)
“The only thing I prayed to God for was the courage to kill myself. But he didn’t give it to me.” (Angela)Slide7
ON RELIGIONPomp and ceremony: “It’s like the movies.” (Santiago)“For the love of God… Leave him for later, if only out of respect for his grace the bishop.” (
Clotilde
)Slide8
ON HONOR“I can imagine, my sons…. Honor doesn’t wait.” (Prudencia’s mother)
“We killed him openly, but we’re innocent. … Before God and before men, it was a matter of honor.” (Pedro and Pablo)
“I never would have married him if he
had’nt
done what a man should do.” (
Prudencia
)
“affairs of honor are sacred monopolies, giving access only to those who are part of the drama.”Slide9
ON PREJUDICESantiago an “Arab,” prompting fears of retribution from Arab community
Pride in wealth “Just like all Turks.”
Angela disliked
Bayardo
thinking he was “a Jew”
Magistrate: “Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.”Slide10
REFLECTIONSCode of honor unquestionedCoincidence or inevitability: “”It’s as if it already had happened.” (Pablo to Pedro)
Guilt or innocence
Passivity, responsibility, and community